Book Drive 2025

We recently held a book drive at The Mall to encourage our pupils to donate their unwanted books to those in need.

Across the UK 1 in 4 disadvantaged children owns fewer than 10 books, whilst 1 in 8 has none at all. This has an impact not only on these children’s academic outcomes but also on their wellbeing, emotional development and sense of themselves as a reader. The Children’s Book Project directly tackles this ‘book gap’ and gifts donated books to targeted communities across the UK. Schools, community groups, women’s groups and prisons nationwide put on book gifting events at which children are invited to choose a book to take home and keep. The charity expects to gift upwards of 500,000 books this year.

Thank you to all of our pupils who thoughtfully donated their books in fantastic condition to those less fortunate. The Mall community continues to work together to support others, and the pupils were very happy to bring in their books to school.

The Children’s Book Project have sent their thanks for our incredible support in hosting a book drive. Our community has demonstrated the power of giving by selecting books they’ve grown out of to give to others. Thanks to our support, The Children’s Book Project can provide books to so many more children with few, or in some cases, no books of their own. Each book donated will be gifted onwards in the near future with an invitation to that child to go on an adventure and become lost in a book they can own and love. They will be distributed via schools and prisons and will help each setting to foster a real sense of themselves as a reading community. Many of them celebrate their book gifting events on social media.

We have proudly received a certificate from the charity for our donations and generosity.